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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-04-16
HON. THOMAS E. McC0MAS.
BEFORE THE YOUNG MEMS REPUB
LICAN CLUB OF BALTIMORE.

WE NEED A REPUBLICAN AID
ADMINISTRATION to reduce the surplus
by taking off the internal revenue tax
on alcohol used in the arts and man.
ufactures, or on tobacco as a farm
product of fifteen states and sixteen
hundred counties, or by largely re-
ducing the duty on sugar or making
sugar free as substantially a foreign
product we need a Republican adj
ministration to regulate the Unequal
tiles of the tariff with friendly hand
and to revise its administrative fea-
lures to build up the navy, to tortify
the coasts and make impregnable
our great harbors to grapple afresh
the profound problem OF silver money,
to obtain an agreement with leading
commercial nations, whereby we may
enjoy parity between gold and sill
yer money, a bimetallIsm IN accord
with the settled Judgment of man
kind to secure and maintain bank
ing currency elastic and guaranteed
without disturbing the business in.
terests of the country. We want it
that the people may feel assured
that the dollar they labor for is hon.
est, staple, abundant, good every
where and all the time +; in order to
extend material aid to educate all
the illIterate who will control the des-
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SELECTIONS.
HIS LITTLE BOOTS.

Up in the cemetery on the hill,
this morning, l picked the pebbles
from off his grave and smoothed the
new-made earth with my hand and
brushed away some dead leaves that
had fallen there. / think there was
a tear dropped on the grave as !
Bonded over it, and there were little
rivulets of tears running down both
my cheeks as | came away from the
lonely cemetery. 5
And l entered the house again. O,
how quiet it seemed without the
patter of his little feet, and his little
cry of welcome. All, my precious
one, papa misses that sweet and
tender greeting. And on the mantel
| saw his pair of little boots-the
first and only pair he had ever
worn. | put them on the
mantel with my own hands the night
before he died. Such little boots
How | have looked at them, and
how she has taken in her hands and
kissed the stiff, black, heavy soled
things, and shed her tears upon
them. How his little eyes did shine
with joy and happiness when ]
brought them home. How those red
tops and brightest copper toes en-
chanted his youthful heart. Then
when she made the first pair of pants
to wear with the boots, how his
little body swelled with pride. Dear
little boots. On the mantel there
in silence they seemed to speak
swee. and tender words to me. !
love them because he wore them.
And she loves them even more than
+, for every morning she kisses them
and every evening she wipes away
her tears with their little red tops
Oh, dear little boots, the Kingdoms
of the world could not bug them from
US, they are the sweetest memories
of our dead boy that God could give
to us. His little boots! Even now
| hasten to the mantel, and / touch
them again with my rough fingers,
and the tears are falling thick and
fast upon his little boots = WiU AZ
Clemens
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-04-16
Twioe Three Score aud Ten,

A writer in The Journal Of Man,
published in Boston, holds that "the at
tainable limits of human longevity are
generally moderated by the medical pro-
fession and by popular opinion. In
stead of the Scriptural limit OF three
score and ten, he says, 81 would esti-
mate twice that amount, or 40 years, as
the ideal age of healthy longevity, when
mankind shall have been bred and trained
with the same wise energy that has been
expended on horses and cattle. OF the
present scrub race, a very large number
ought never to have been born, and
ought not to be allowed to transmit their
physical and moral DEFICIENCIES to poster
ity." This estimate, he insists, is sus-
tanned by the number of persons Of the
age Of 140 found in Italy under census
by one of the Roman emperors. 1t is
aided. moreover, by the number of per-
sons in this country who have passed the
century limit .-Detroit Free Press.
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CLEMENTS BACK. Mr.. William M.
Clements, general manager of the Erie
Express Company, with his head
quarters in New York, has been made
general manager ofthe Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company. This is a
fact. The appointment takes effect at
once. The Baltimore and Ohio Com
pany has been since the resignation OF
Mr.. Bradford Durham, a few months
ago, without a general manager. Since
Mr.. Durham retired the work of a
general manager has been done in
Vice President Spencer's office. Mr..
Clements was for long time in the
employ of the B. & 0. Company. He
began work with the road in 1869 at
Parkersburg, w. Va, where he re-
manned until 1875, when he was trans
ferred to Locust Point, where he was
stationed during the riots in 1877, and
did excellent service in protecting the
company's property. He was sent to
Martinsburg during the great block at
that point and brought the first train
East. For this work he was promo
ted to be master of transportation with
headquarters at Camden Station,
where he remained a long time.
When Mr.. Durham was made gener-
al manager, new Office in the B. &
o., November 81, 1884, the Office of
master of transportation was abolish
ed, and Mr.. Clements was made SUI
perintendent of the main stem and
branches. A few months later a dis
agreement arose between Mr.. Dun
ham, who came from the Louisville
and Nashville system, and Mr.. Glenn
ents about the appointment of SUBJ
officials to serve under Mr.. Clements,
the latter holding that promotions
ought to be made in the regular way
by advancing men who had been
trained in the Baltimore and Ohio
service. Mr.. Clements felt hurt that
he was not sustained in his position,
and offered his resignation March 10.
1885, and it was promptly accepted,
much to the surprise of many of the
company's employees. He retired to
his farm in the Valley of Virginia,
where he remained until he was called
to the Erie Express Company at sal
airy higher than he had ever received
before. 1t was understood to be S12,-
900 year. Mr.. Clements was one of
the most popular officials the Balti-
more and Ohio ever had. He knew
the workings of the road well, and all
his subordinate officers, who became
much attached to him and were sorry
when he severed his connection with
the company. A number of men who
had worked with him, after he went
farming, made him some handsome
presents. After Mr.. Durham resign
ed. the newspapers said Mr.. Clements
was the coming man for general man.
ager, but this was denied more than
once in the b. & o. Central Building.
The company has secured again the
service ofan experienced and efficient
officer.
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POETRY.
WHAT Is NnBLE7

What is noble To inherit
Wealth, estate and proud degree
There must DO some other merit.
Higher yet than these for me
Something greater far must enter.
Into life g majestic span,
Fitted to create and centre
True nobility in man.
What is Noble tits the finer
Portion of our mind and heart,
Linked to something still diviner
Than mere language can impart:
Ever prompting, ever seeing
Some improvement yet to plan,
To uplift our fellow-being,
And. like man, to feel for man.
What is noble is the sabre
Nobler than the humble spade2
There s dignity in labor
Truer than e'er pomp arrayed
He who seeks the minds improvement
Aids the world in aiding mind,
Every great commanding movement.
Serves not one, but all mankind.
o 'er the forge's heat and ashes,
Ger the engines iron head,
Where the rapid shuttle flashes,
And the spindle whirls its thread,
There is labor, lowly tending
Each requirement of the hour,
There is genius still extending
Science, and its world of power.
Mid the dust, and speed. and clamor,
Of the loom shed and the mill,
Midst the clink of wheel and hammer
Great results are growing still
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Work and workers may be blamed
Commerce need not hide its features,
Industry is not ashamed !
What is noble that which places
Truth in its enfranchised will,
Leaving steps, like angel traces,
That mankind may follow still
E ZEN though scorn's malignant glance
Prove him poorest of his clan,
He's the Noble, who advances
Freedom, and the Cause of Man
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-04-16
HOW NOVEL WRITING PAYS.
Securing q Publisher is One Thing. $
curing Sales is Quite Another.

Securing q Publisher is One Thing, Sc
curing Sales is Quite Another.
Getting books published is one thing;
getting them sold is quite another. Little
as Trollope made by his first literary ven
publishers. They We're not success be-
cause the public refused to buy them, and
If Trollope had not been man of logged
resolution he would have given in long
before the tide turned. 1t by no means
follows, however, that every one who per-
severes with equal resolution viii be
equally successful, or, indeed, achieve any
success at all; for though by practice
man may acquire the knack of writing
readable English, no amount of persever-
ance, without imagination, will make
novelist.
1t is true that some writers appear to
succeed at the first attempt. Like By
ron, they waken and find themselves FAM
Gus. These instances are, however, very
few, and when careful inquisition is
made it viii generally be found that there
was previous preparation, and that sue
cess was preceded by failure. Charlotte
Bronte sprung at bound into the first
rank of living novelists; but her great
natural gifts had been assiduously Guilt
waited for years, From her very child
hood she had been studying the art Of
fiction and writing works of imagination.
The late Hugh Conway is another in
stance of the same sort, though his genius
was of far inferior order His "Called
Back" took the country by storm and
created rage for shilling horrors; which
is only now beginning TO subside. Yet.
though ''Called Back" was the first work
he published, it was not by long way
the first he wrote. He must have had
quite large stock ON hand; two, think,
have been published since his death; and
/ know a publisher who refused one of
Hugh Conway's stories years before the
public heard of his existence.
1t would thus appear that to profit by
authorship, in the ordinary sense of the
word, something more is required than a
mere shutting of the eyes and an opening
of the mouth. There must be special
aptitude, patience, perseverance and in
dustry. These. with . love of literature
for its own sake, will probably be suffi
Gent in ordinary circumstances to insure
a fair measure of success. Brilliant sue
cess and enduring fame are for genius
alone, and the man who hopes to make
fortune by his pen must be sanguine in
deed. True, Scott did great things in
that way. Dickens accumulated $780,
600 (and killed himself in the effort and
Trollope sold for $4,000 apiece novels
that he wrote in two months.
But it is not every novelist that pos
sesses the genius of Dickens or the feItil-
ity of Trollope, and there is at present
probably not one English writer who can
command the prices that he readily OBJ
tanned. More novels are now written
than ever, and the average price paid to
authors has suffered woful diminution.
/ have been told that when The London
Graphic began its prosperous career, it's
proprietors paid as much as $1,000 for
the serial rights of its long stories. They
now seldom pay more than third of that
slim.-The Cosmopolitan.
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point cut to succeeding generations
the work so nobly begun. Plant
trees around your school.houseS,
churches, graveyards, houses and
lots, especially in the resident por-
ton of the town. Ten years of
united work will transform Martins.
burg into a park city, and its waste
places will be covered by nature with
her richest stores, aud by the hand
work of man with rich, comfortable
homes, luxuriant gardens, flourish
ing mills. factories and institutions.
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WHAT CAN'T THE LADIES DO.

in the world we're done by and with
the assistance of the ladies. In fact.
nothing goes on worth mentioning
unless "there is a woman in it,"
Women are more wide-awake to-day
than men are. What have they not
accomplished by their own efforts ?
They are revolutionizing the moral
and industrial world, while man
looks on surprised and alarmed.
Now, the application is this: The
men have been working one hun
dred and fifty years to make Mar
tinsburg bright, attractive and
prosperous city, and to-day it is
nothing like what it should be.
The most that has been done in it's
social, moral and religious progress,
is the work of the mother and the
daughter.
Will they not take further hold
and give the men ga lift" AS a
rule their homes inside are models
of taste and acknowledgements
work; outside there Is good deal
of primitive shabbiness,-man's
work.
IF it need be, let the ladies save
in personal expenditures for a
season, and see that every house
gets coat Of paint, every fence q
white wash application, every yard
and street front cleaning up''
and a putting in order. Let them
not stop there, but urge property
holders and corporation authorities
to give the pavements a thorough
overhauling.
The town will advance 900 per
cent. in looks,-in brightness, cheer
fulness and an air of prosperity, and
when the air is once regenerated
it'll be healthier in every way, and
its freshness and vigor will prove
irresistible inducements for invest
ment and location.
Another thing: For years one
street committee after another have
been doctoring up public sore-spot
the square-and it is sore-spot
yet. The ladies can heal it inside of
a year and make flowers bloom upon
the muddy and rocky waste.
| How! Form an improvement
society with live workers at the head
of it; beg the public for contribu-
ton fund, induce the property-hold-
ers around the square into hand
| ing over S25 each to start with /;
convince the County Court that S25
or $50 will be wisely and telllngly
expended; hold fair and penurious
indeed must be the business man
who would not give something
valuable to the cause. Within six
months $500 OF $1,000 could be
raised. Then contract with specifi-
cations to the lowest bidder for the
laying ont OF an oval plat in the
center of the square, sodded, iron
fence, brick walk, and rustic seats
around,-small fountain, statue or
| flower urns in the center,-and
you'll have Court House Square
to be proud of, where soft music
could float nightly in the summer
air, and lighthearted y nth and
children, tired fathers and mothers,
lounge at ease in the GOODNESS of
morn, eve or mid day enjoyment.
Can't be dones Not by talk but
by acork. Some public spirited
citizen might give 800 to start with,
and name the square in his honor.
In this work of town improvement
every school child can help, and in
{; declining age what a comfort to
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aotham.s hank Presidents

New York bank presidents are well
paid. They have little to do and plenty
of time to do it. A half dozen receive
0,000 per year each for their not very
arduous labors. A score are paid $685.
900, and even the very small institutions
pay the respectable old gentlemen who
lend grace and elegance to their concerns
$4,000 and $4,000 each.-New York
Mail and Exprdzs.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-04-16

Professor Proctor, in his new book ON
''Chance and Luck, J" undertakes to tell
the chances OF getting heads or tails in
tossing penny. If you toss an hour.
heads viii not exceed stalls. - or
tails" heads" in greater ratio than
81 to 30. II you toss for day the in
equality win not be greater than 1O1 to
1D0.-New York Commercial Advertiser
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Der poorhouse yhas full Of peoples who
pellet dot tomorrow Will bring EN-
luck. Carl Dunder in Detroit Free
Press.
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If one quarter of the brains pos
sessed by either Lucas or Switzer,
were crowded into the head of the
Ners, its skull would explode with
force enough to blow out He'll Gate.
Richie Gazette.
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Whether Lucas or Switzer is the
ugliest of the twelve apostates, is a
much controverted question. When
one gets the red ribbon, the other
will be entitled to the blue Wayne
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-04-16

The Interstate Commerce act has
bad disastrous effect on iron and
other industries at Harrisburg, Pa.
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Administrators NOTICE.

Having qualified as administrator of
the estate of John Snodeal. de'd, late of
Martinsburg, w. Va, all persons know
ing themselves indebted to him are here
by notified to come forward and make
immediate payment, and those having
claims will present them at once, prop
erly authenticated. for settlement.
LUTHER MILLER.
Admir- John Snodeal, decd.
March 23d. 1887.
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VOL. VI.
Miscellaneous.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS /!

To the Creditors of Thomas C. Harper,
deceased.
In pursuance of decree of the Circuit
Court of the County of Berkeley,
made in cause therein pending. to
subject the real estate of the said
Thomas c. Harper to the payment
of his debts, you are required to pre-
sent your claims against the estate of
the said T. c. Harper, for adjudication
to John T. Picking, Commissioner
at his Office in the said county, on or
before the 2eth day of March, 1887.
Witness, S. H. Martin, Clerk of said
Court, this 10th day of February 1887.
6t] S. II. MARTIN, Clerk.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-09-27
British Grain Trade Review.

LONDON. Sept. 26-The Mark Lane Ex.
press in its weekly review of the British
grain trade. says: There has been fair de-
mand for seed wheat at slightly hardening
values for picked samples but prices gener-
ally remain at the lowest point of last Mon
day. Sales of English wheat during the past
week were u. 293 quarters at 2ss Cd, against
81, 12l quarters at SOs Cd during the CORE
spending week last year. Wheat remains at
advance, but buyers do not respond. With
fine English white wheat at 32s and splendid
red wheats at sos for delivery in London
even the best Russian is at a discount, while
American and Indian do not compete. Rates
for flour are maintained. Corn is turn
dearer. There were eight arrivals of wheat
cargoes. One was sold, four were Withdrawn
wheat dealings were slow. English wheat
was steady. Flour was weaker. Corn was
Sd dearer. Oats were Sd lower.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-09-27
Fighting an Imported Preacher.

0h AshpOESCu EOoChCEs
NEW YORK, sept a.-lSpecial Telegram
to the BEE. There seems to be lots Of
trouble ahead for the church of the Holy
Trinity. John s. Kennedy, president of st.
Andrews society, Is adding to the burdens of
the church in novel and startling manner.
The new rector Rev. E. Walpole Warren,
comes from England. Kennedy says that
the importation of minister of the gospel is
contrary to the doctrine of protection to
home industries as set forth in the act of con-
gress February g. 1885, entitled: IAN act to
prohibit importation and immigration of for
eigners or aliens under contract or agree
ment to perform labor in the United States"
etc. In accordance with this suppostion
Kennedy has written to Collector MagOne.
calling attention to Warren's importation"
and to the law which he thinks has been yiO-
lated. lie has nothing whatever against
Warren, he says, but as president of St An
drews' society he has been greatly grieved by
the enforcement of the law against his cOun.
Irymen and he wants 1t enforced against
others in the same way.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-09-27
POstmce hbbed.

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb., Sept. 26.-lSpecial
Telegram to the BEE. THE postoffice was
robbed of fourteen registered letters and 500
in money at noon. The money was taken
from the safe while the employees were for
ward at the general delivery window giving
the lock on the door of the office and thus
gained an entrance. Several more rob-
berries have been reported since this morn
ing. Sloan ~ Marton's drug store was
burglarized last night, and man named
Patton, from Iowa, ives robbed of some $50
to-day at FOrepaugh's show. No less than a
dozen robberies have occurred since last
night. There has been no clue OF any kind
d scoYered as yet.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-09-27
SHELTERED IN TENTS.
Thousan OF Veterans Housed Under
Canvas at st, Louis.


ST. LOUIS, Sept. 26.-The national salute
from Camp Washington heralded the dawn
ing Of the day and aroused the army OF vet
erans and committees whose duties called
them to early trains. A fine mist dampened
the atmosphere this morning and grad
ually resolved into steady rain. The first
train this morning brought In great crowds
Of veterans and visitors. The Pacific slope
had SC ircely settled down before tho nearer
west poured In with Colorado, Arkansas,
New Mexico and Texas. The Iowa
and Missouri contlngents reported
many men and announced the
coming of thousands more. Several hun
dred have reported from Pennsylvania.
Early in the morning the Kentucky posts
escorted their department commander " his
headquarters and then moved to their tents:
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois quietly passed
greeting friedns and comrades. BY noon the
railroads had brought in 10000 citizens, SOL
diers, and many more.
The feature Of this enca%pment andag is n1s the
escampment aSnp ut ts before in a''" small nun: num-
bers the plan gave such satisfaction and
vast nubers and the executive s Committees M
Of People in the field than has
ever before been attempted IN any
land, except in times of war. Perhaps no
canvas city of such proportion has ever been
built in SO snort time. Within two months
$500 tents with ample room for $4,000 soldiers
have been put together and are now pitched
in the ten beautiful parks of the city,
all within a radius OF two miles,
The doubt whether the boys would take
to tents has been dispelled, for more appli-
cations for such shelter have, been made
than tents are ready, for All the after
veterans and their families have been IN
cessant. This evening visitors were enter.
tanned by receptions at the various posts and
headquarters. Owing to the inclemency of
the weather 1t was agreed tonight
that in case OF o light rain or
drzzle the parade should take place as per
programme, but in case it was impossible to
form, or the ranks were broken by heavy
rain, the parade should be postponed until
Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. In event
of q pOstpcnement the annual encampment
session proper will not begin till Wednesday
noon. General Fairchild staff and party ar
rived this evening.